Effective Time Management

In the spirit of New Year's Resolutions, I got online to Franklin Covey today to order my new planner pages. Boy, am I going to be efficient. A quick, 10 minute, time-saving, online purchase to be delivered right to my doorstep. The height of efficiency and convenience. Ah, yes. I am starting the New Year off on the right foot.
After 2 hours, and 2 phone calls to exotic "customer service" people all the way in India, I finally found a gen-u-ine, American talking person. Found out that after 2 hours on the phone out of the country, my order wasn't placed correctly after all, so I got to repeat all the info again. (I now have the items numbers memorized if you were curious)
I also now know, that if I want to effectively manage my time while shopping for time management supplies, I'm better off to hop in my car, drive 40 minutes to Mall of America, and pick up my own stuff!

Happy New Year!

So how was your New Year's Eve? We have had a tradition not quite making it until midnight around here, but the kiddos are now old enough that that just won't fly anymore. So, we had some friends over and while the grown ups played my favorite card game (Shang Hai), the kiddos ran around and did whatever they wanted until midnight. Then we banged on pots and pans to let our neighbors know we are even weirder than they think, and threw confetti all over my front porch. (It was about 2 below zero) We all got to bed around 2 AM, and we are starting off the New Year with a sugar, Diet Pepsi, and sleep deprived hangover. But it was fun!
So, please share, what did you do?
Happy 2009!

Merry Christmas

Waiting anxiously at the top of the stairs!
Susannta Claus on Christmas Eve
Look at all the loot! (who knew we were that good!)
Leaving cookies for a famished Santa...
Daddy made some indoor golf for the boys!
Olivia giving Fancy Nancy a run for her money...
Susie's first Christmas! (She likes the bows best)

The Weather Outside is Frightful

Today is the first day in a long while that we have NO PLANS! (By design) I was in bed until 9:30. (With a few children rotating in and out) It is supposed to snow 7 inches. We finished Christmas shopping last night. We're going to go get a couple of groceries and a movie. This is the best day ever.

UPDATE! At approximately 10:00PM Saturday night we got a phone call that all church meetings were canceled for Sunday! We're Mormon. We're Minnesotan. That pretty much means this is nothing less than a Christmas Miracle.

Yippee! Guilt free church skipping!

Laundry Quandry

Today as I was folding a couple of loads of laundry, it occured to me that most of what I was folding was school uniforms for Jack, Spencer, and Ethan.
It next occured to me, that they have two whole weeks without school. How nice it will be to not have to wash uniforms so often!
It then occured to me that they only have 2 days worth of non-school or church clothes.
Crap.

Ever laugh so hard milk comes out your nose?

Fourth of Fourth

Per Carole's reccomendation, I went to the 4th picture file on my computer, and pulled out the 4th picture in the file. It was the boys' "TP"ing Jared's office (with paper towels) on April Fool's Day this year. Enjoy!